"I of my own knowledge…"

This article interests me chiefly because it seems to correlate with what the guys upstairs have been telling me for some time now: We are not individuals so much as communities. That’s not what the authors of this study would say, of course, but it seems to me that their study indirectly supports what you’ll find in The Cosmic Internet, not to mention so many posts on this blog. Like so many articles of interest, this one came to my attention via the daily SchwartzReport.

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2011/12/amoeba_experiment_dicty_strassmann_queller.php

But you’ll have to go there to see the two graphics, which I was unable to paste in here.

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By way of Intuitive Linked Communication (ILC), this discussion with Carl Jung earlier this week. Sometimes you play with an idea for some time, thinking you understand it, and suddenly realize (with a little help from your friends) that it’s bigger and more important than you had thought it.

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This, via the Monroe Institute’s website, is Deepak Chopra explaining in four minutes the scientific reasons to believe that the primary basis of existence is neither matter nor energy (whatever “energy” might be, divorced from its context of matter!) but consciousness. I am no physicist, but this feels right. I suppose that, in context, “feels right” means “restates what I already believe.” Well, so be it. Four minutes, no more:

http://www.monroeinstitute.org/thehub/quantum-physics-and-consciousness/

My friend Larry Giannou sent me this link to Graham Hancock’s presentation given to the 2012 Tipping Point Prophets Conference with the comment, “Thought you might enjoy this” — He was so right!

I had the pleasure of listening to Hancock, Robert Bauval, Colin Wilson, John Anthony West, Rand Flem-Ath and others in 1995, at a conference called Return to the Source. And I have for years been an interested and indeed impatient observer of the process of trying to get what has been called Forbidden Archaeology into the mainstream.

Watch this one and a half hour presentation and two things will likely happen. 1) You’ll be fascinated, and 2) you’ll start looking for more on the subject, which these days (courtesy of the Internet) is easier than ever to find.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4k8pdJ2so4&feature=player_embedded#at=199

Another piece that I have been sitting on for some while, too good to throw away, too removed from topicality to make it to the top of the pile. From the Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1275574/Babies-know-difference-good-evil-months-study-reveals.html

Babies know the difference between good and evil at six months, study reveals

By DAVID DERBYSHIRE

At the age of six months babies can barely sit up – let along take their first tottering steps, crawl or talk.

But, according to psychologists, they have already developed a sense of moral code – and can tell the difference between good and evil.

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I’ve been sitting on this for a while, mostly because it got lost in my files. It appeared in the SchwartzReport for July 17, 2010, but it is no less relevant today, and will be no less relevant next years. Things change slowly, in certain directions. Nonetheless, regardless who glacially slowly, they do change.

Editor Stephan Schwartz’ comment:

I remember back in the early 1970s, when my two friends, Christopher Bird and Peter Tompkins were writing what became the best seller, The Secret Life of Plants, they introduced me to Cleve Backster whose research showed plants had a measure of consciousness. All three of them, Peter Chris, and Cleve were subjected to withering and largely ad hominem criticism, by paradigm constrained biologists and other deniers who simply could not accept that any species other than human beings could have conscious awareness.

Plants ‘Can Think And Remember’

VICTORIA GILL, Science Reporter – BBC News (U.K.)

Plants are able to “remember” and “react” to information contained in light, according to researchers.

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So there’s this book of essays by Michael Ventura, with photos by Butch Hancock, called If I Was a Highway, published by Texas Tech University Press (ttup@ttu.edu, or www.ttupress.org). It’s a hardcover,  7.5 x 9.5 inches, 236 pages, $30 but you can get it at Amazon for $22.

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Back in the 1980s, while reviewing books for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, I came across Shadow Dancing in the USA by this guy I’d never heard of. I read it enthralled, and gave it a good review which unfortunately didn’t see the light of day for nearly a year, thus doing the publisher no good at all) and from that moment added Michael Ventura to my look-for list. Of course, that was back before the days of internet searches, and Amazon and Alibris and Powell’s online and so forth.

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Saturday, January 29, 2011

5 AM, and for the first time in a long time I feel like really communicating. For whatever reason or combination of reasons I am up and seemingly am back in business.

So –?

Welcome back. It isn’t as if we went anywhere.

Actually, it is exactly “as if” — that is, that’s what it felt like.

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Very interesting to see Michael Ventura quoting from his own predictions as set forth in his 1985 book Shadow Dancing in the USA. It was that book, which I came across as a book reviewer for the Norfolk (Va) Virginian-Pilot, that introduced me to Ventura. I recognized his importance then, an importance that has been confirmed by everything of his that I have seen since. From the Austin Chronicle. http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid%3A1130109

Letters at 3AM: Improvising the Coming World

BY MICHAEL VENTURA

The recording is The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse. The year is 1971. Before the music begins, a voice speaks: “[T]he title was inspired by a statement made by Mr. Marshall McLuhan. … Mr. McLuhan says that the whole world is going Oriental and that no one will be able to retain his or her identity, not even the Orientals. … And, from that point of view, it’s most improbable that anyone will ever know exactly who is enjoying the shadow of whom.”

That’s Duke Ellington speaking. The phrase “New World Order” had not yet entered popular usage, but it might have amused Ellington. Jazz artists cultivate an acute sense of interplay between order and improvisation. They know how improvisation relies on an underlying sense of order, and they know how pliable order can become in the hands of a gifted improviser.

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I got this message from a particularly close friend, and pass it on for those who find that it resonates. It resonates with me, particularly in light of what I know of the terrible troubles Abraham Lincoln went through, and what I know of the power of spiritual intervention in world affairs.

Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 6:48 PM

To: Frank DeMarco
Subject: for our President

A message came in last night that Obama needs our prayers, not our worries and disappointments.  And that through your network this word can get spread.  And that I’m not the only one getting this message. (So I shouldn’t feel that I’m trying to “make a hole in the ocean” as the Greeks expression for fruitless activity goes.)  We need not judge his capabilities by apparent results, which are anyway better than he gets credit for.   His intentions and abilities are good, the times are terrible, and the opposition intractable and cunning.