One of the authors that has had the most profound affects on my spiritual beliefs is Michael Newton and his work on life between lives. Here is a 1996 interview with him that is just amazing:
Monday, August 23, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
MYSTERIES ABOUND IN WTC SHIP REMAINS
MYSTERIES ABOUND IN WTC SHIP REMAINS
Analysis by James Williams
Thu Aug 12, 2010 11:12 AM ET
This is an honest-to-goodness historical mystery and we're going to follow it until the end.
We’ll likely pay the lab a visit -- with video camera in tow -- once the heavy lifting gets underway. In the meantime, I’ll report back with any further developments as Patricia and her crew try to learn the back story of this ship. I’ll also be reaching out to *you* though various social media means to see if we can answer any questions you might have directly.
And while dead men may tell no tales, here's just a taste of what long-forgotten ship timbers can tell us:
For more on the timbers' arrival, here's a good recounting a la washingtonpost.com.
Analysis by James Williams
Thu Aug 12, 2010 11:12 AM ET
On July 12 the remains of an 18th-century ship were found buried 20 feet below street level at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. The question is -- how did they get there?
Nobody knows for sure -- yet. And even though there are timbers from the front half of the ship, nobody can identify what kind of ship it is because, among other mysteries, it’s not a design we’ve seen before.
Yesterday I spoke with Patricia Samford, Director of the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab, where the wood is now being prepared for scientific study. She said at the moment they’re cleaning and prepping the ship's partial skeleton (partial, because the back half of the ship is missing) ahead of a slew of scientific analysis.
They're no stranger to this kind of work. They've worked with the USS Monitor, the CSS Alabama, Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge and they'll probably help with anything found in the USS Scorpion dig site in Maryland's Patuxent River.
And while dead men may tell no tales, here's just a taste of what long-forgotten ship timbers can tell us:
- Where the Trees Came From: Since the wood itself can be identified by geography, they can tell where in the U.S. the wood was grown.
- When The Tree Was Cut Down: Once they know where the wood came from, they can compare tree rings from other wood samples from that area and identify what year the tree was cut down.
- Where The Ship Sailed: Specific species of woodworms live in specific areas of the ocean. Ships can pick them up like passport stamps as they enter various ports. By looking at what types of woodworms left traces in the ship timbers, one can figure out which ports the ship visited long ago.
For more on the timbers' arrival, here's a good recounting a la washingtonpost.com.
Photos: Douglas Mackey
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Weird Weather
It doesn't seem that long ago that everyone was claiming that global warming was disproved because of the huge snow storms that the US had. Although many scientists since then have pointed out that those snow storms were actually caused by global warming because there is more moisture in the atmosphere; so rather than disprove, the snowstorms actually put an exclamation mark on global warming...or climate change.
Now it is a few short months since those claims of global warming being a hoax, and the US is in the grip of some extremely hot weather. Not a peep from the naysayers now. But that is not the type of stuff that I interesting. If you follow the science, you know that we will have hot weather. You know that we will have large snowstorms.
But then there are stories about things that are truly extreme. First is a story about snow in Brazil. If you look at the picture in the story you'll see palm trees line the snow covered street. Second is a story about wild fires in Moscow because it is so hot over there. And finally, the story of an ice sheet that broke off in Greenland that is the size of Manhattan. These stories, my friends, these stories are the canaries in the coal mine.
The biggest Arctic “ice island” to form in nearly 50 years — a 250-square-kilometre behemoth described as four times the size of Manhattan — has been discovered after a Canadian scientist scanning satellite images of northwest Greenland spotted a giant break in the famed Petermann Glacier.
About one-quarter of Petermann’s 70-kilometre-long floating ice shelf has split from the main glacier and is now drifting in a fiord toward open water. It will eventually track a route south, toward Canadian shipping lanes along the Baffin Island and Newfoundland coasts, as do most icebergs calved from Greenland’s shoreline glaciers — including the one that struck and sank the Titanic in 1912.
Environment Canada’s Trudy Wohlleben, a researcher with the Canadian Ice Service, reported the birth of the colossal ice island on Thursday to a U.S. expert conducting a study on ice movement in Nares Strait — the narrow sea passage between Greenland and Canada’s Ellesmere Island.
University of Delaware researcher Andreas Muenchow confirmed and announced the discovery on Friday, describing the ice island’s thickness of more than 200 metres in some places as “half the height of the Empire State Building.”
The new ice island dwarfs a 29-square-kilometre one that broke away from the Petermann Glacier in 2008 and forced the Canadian Ice Service to closely monitor its movement last summer near shipping routes at the south end of Baffin Island.
The threat subsided after the ice island broke into smaller pieces that drifted throughout the waters of the Eastern Canadian Arctic.
At the time, however, experts had detected a large crack in the Petermann Glacier that they suspected might produce a much, much bigger ice island — a prediction now proven correct.
“The fresh water stored in this ice island could keep the Delaware or Hudson rivers flowing for more than two years,” Muenchow said in a statement. “It could also keep all U.S. public tap water flowing for 120 days.”
To give some Canadian comparisons, the free-floating block of ice is considerably larger than B.C.’s Saltspring Island, about half as big as the Island of Montreal and almost the exact size of Newfoundland’s Fogo Island.
“In Nares Strait, the ice island will encounter real islands that are all much smaller in size,” Muenchow stated. “The newly-born ice island may become land-fast, block the channel, or it may break into smaller pieces as it is propelled south by the prevailing ocean currents. From there, it will likely follow along the coasts of Baffin Island and Labrador, to reach the Atlantic within the next two years.”
Muenchow said the last time the Arctic produced an ice island larger than this one was in 1962, when a 400-sq.-km piece of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf broke away from north coast of Ellesmere Island.
Earlier this summer, the Jakobshavn Glacier — its ocean outlet located near the town of Ilulissat on Greenland’s west coast —lost a seven-square-kilometre section of its leading edge.
The collapse of several Arctic ice shelves in recent years has kept the Canadian Ice Service on alert for possible threats to ships and oil exploration activity.
In 2005, a 66-square-kilometre chunk of the Ayles Ice Shelf on Ellesmere Island’s northern coast broke free and began drifting south. Federal scientists kept a close watch on the resulting Ayles Ice Island as it tracked a worrisome route toward the Beaufort Sea, a relatively busy region in summer for shipping and oil-and-gas exploration.
But in August 2007, the five-by-15-kilometre slab turned down a dead-end channel between Meighen and Axel Heiberg islands, where it was expected to slowly break up over years and become an anonymous part of the Arctic pack ice.
In 2008, the Ellesmere Island ice shelves experienced unprecedented losses totalling about 200 square kilometres, sending more huge ice chunks drifting through Canada’s Arctic waters.
One of the country’s five remaining Arctic ice shelves — the 4,500-year-old, 50-square-kilometre Markham Ice Shelf — broke completely away from Ellesmere and drifted into the Arctic Ocean, a particularly dramatic sign of how rising temperatures and retreating sea ice were creating what one top scientist called “irreversible” changes to the country’s polar frontier.
Now it is a few short months since those claims of global warming being a hoax, and the US is in the grip of some extremely hot weather. Not a peep from the naysayers now. But that is not the type of stuff that I interesting. If you follow the science, you know that we will have hot weather. You know that we will have large snowstorms.
But then there are stories about things that are truly extreme. First is a story about snow in Brazil. If you look at the picture in the story you'll see palm trees line the snow covered street. Second is a story about wild fires in Moscow because it is so hot over there. And finally, the story of an ice sheet that broke off in Greenland that is the size of Manhattan. These stories, my friends, these stories are the canaries in the coal mine.
Snow in Brazil, below zero Celsius in the River Plate and tropical fish frozen
For a second day running it snowed Wednesday in Southern Brazil and in twelve of Argentina’s 24 provinces including parts of Buenos Aires as a consequence of the polar front covering most of the continent’s southern cone with zero and below zero temperatures.
Light snow storms in Brazil were concentrated in areas of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina. O Globo network aired snow flakes falling in early morning, cars covered with a thin white coating and some roads dangerously slippery because of ice.
In Argentina the phenomenon extended to Northern provinces, geographically sub-tropical while in the Patagonia and along the Andes snow reached over a metre deep, isolating villages and causing yet undisclosed losses to crops and livestock.
The extreme cold weather is expected to peak Thursday dawn with below zero temperatures and even lower with the wind chill factor.
After a harsh weekend, Argentina’s National Weather Forecast Service announced the cold weather is expected to stay until Thursday although it could again reach a freezing peak over the coming week-end.
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| Brazilians associated to sun and beaches enjoy the unexpected snow |
On Wednesday a northbound cold front hit the Patagonia and central Argentine regions. In Patagonia, minimum temperatures went as low as minus 10 Celsius with even lower numbers in snowy regions, while maximum temps were in the range of zero to 7 Celsius.
Because of the freezing temperatures power consumption set new records both in Argentina and Uruguay. According to Argentina’s Planning ministry, electricity demand reached 20.669 MW at 20:15 hours when most Argentine families are home back from work. Although residential demand was satisfied, hundreds of industries suffered an anticipated blackout.
In Uruguay the power record consumption was reached on Wednesday at 20:45. The lowest temperatures were registered in the north and west of the country: minus 7 Celsius.
In related news, reports from landlocked Bolivia indicate that to the east of the country in tropical areas temperatures plummeted to zero causing “millions of dead fish” in rivers that normally flow in an environment of 20 Celsius.
Santa Cruz governor Ruben Costas said the province was suffering a “major environmental catastrophe” and warned the population not to make use of water from rivers (because of the dead fauna and flora) promising to send drinking water in municipal trucks.
“The last time something of this magnitude happened was 47 years ago”, said governor Costas.
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| acquired August 10, 2010 |
Russia’s wildfires continued to rage on August 9, 2010, producing thick smoke that blanketed much of western Russia. The fire activity and the smoke seemed to be concentrated in two areas, divided by the Volga River. In this true-color image, the most intense fires in the western cluster appear to be south and east of Moscow. Distinct plumes of smoke can be seen rising from several fires immediately southeast of the capital. These fires and others in the region envelop the city in choking smoke, completely obscuring the city from view. Moscow’s approximate location is marked in the image.
East of the Volga River, the fires are concentrated in and near the Ural Mountains. These fires are also visible by the plumes of smoke they are emitting.
On the morning of August 9, 557 wildfires burned in Russia, reported BBC News. Smoke from the fires releases carbon monoxide, fine particles, and ozone-producing chemicals into the atmosphere. Carbon monoxide levels were twice the accepted level in Moscow on August 9, said BBC News.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’sTerra satellite captured this image on August 9, 2010. The image is a composite of three separate satellite overpasses. A diagonal line marks the boundary between each successive overpass. The large image is the highest-resolution version of the image, but the image is available inadditional resolutions from the MODIS Rapid Response Team.
References
- BBC News. Death rate doubles in Moscow as heatwave continues. Accessed August 9, 2010.
- CNN. (2010, August 9). Heat and smog double death rate in Moscow. Accessed August 9, 2010.
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
- Instrument:
- Terra - MODIS
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A lake of meltwater on the surface of the Petermann Glacier in this July 6, 2009 handout photo.Photograph by: Greenpeace, Reuters |
The biggest Arctic “ice island” to form in nearly 50 years — a 250-square-kilometre behemoth described as four times the size of Manhattan — has been discovered after a Canadian scientist scanning satellite images of northwest Greenland spotted a giant break in the famed Petermann Glacier.
About one-quarter of Petermann’s 70-kilometre-long floating ice shelf has split from the main glacier and is now drifting in a fiord toward open water. It will eventually track a route south, toward Canadian shipping lanes along the Baffin Island and Newfoundland coasts, as do most icebergs calved from Greenland’s shoreline glaciers — including the one that struck and sank the Titanic in 1912.
Environment Canada’s Trudy Wohlleben, a researcher with the Canadian Ice Service, reported the birth of the colossal ice island on Thursday to a U.S. expert conducting a study on ice movement in Nares Strait — the narrow sea passage between Greenland and Canada’s Ellesmere Island.
University of Delaware researcher Andreas Muenchow confirmed and announced the discovery on Friday, describing the ice island’s thickness of more than 200 metres in some places as “half the height of the Empire State Building.”
The new ice island dwarfs a 29-square-kilometre one that broke away from the Petermann Glacier in 2008 and forced the Canadian Ice Service to closely monitor its movement last summer near shipping routes at the south end of Baffin Island.
The threat subsided after the ice island broke into smaller pieces that drifted throughout the waters of the Eastern Canadian Arctic.
At the time, however, experts had detected a large crack in the Petermann Glacier that they suspected might produce a much, much bigger ice island — a prediction now proven correct.
“The fresh water stored in this ice island could keep the Delaware or Hudson rivers flowing for more than two years,” Muenchow said in a statement. “It could also keep all U.S. public tap water flowing for 120 days.”
To give some Canadian comparisons, the free-floating block of ice is considerably larger than B.C.’s Saltspring Island, about half as big as the Island of Montreal and almost the exact size of Newfoundland’s Fogo Island.
“In Nares Strait, the ice island will encounter real islands that are all much smaller in size,” Muenchow stated. “The newly-born ice island may become land-fast, block the channel, or it may break into smaller pieces as it is propelled south by the prevailing ocean currents. From there, it will likely follow along the coasts of Baffin Island and Labrador, to reach the Atlantic within the next two years.”
Muenchow said the last time the Arctic produced an ice island larger than this one was in 1962, when a 400-sq.-km piece of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf broke away from north coast of Ellesmere Island.
Earlier this summer, the Jakobshavn Glacier — its ocean outlet located near the town of Ilulissat on Greenland’s west coast —lost a seven-square-kilometre section of its leading edge.
The collapse of several Arctic ice shelves in recent years has kept the Canadian Ice Service on alert for possible threats to ships and oil exploration activity.
In 2005, a 66-square-kilometre chunk of the Ayles Ice Shelf on Ellesmere Island’s northern coast broke free and began drifting south. Federal scientists kept a close watch on the resulting Ayles Ice Island as it tracked a worrisome route toward the Beaufort Sea, a relatively busy region in summer for shipping and oil-and-gas exploration.
But in August 2007, the five-by-15-kilometre slab turned down a dead-end channel between Meighen and Axel Heiberg islands, where it was expected to slowly break up over years and become an anonymous part of the Arctic pack ice.
In 2008, the Ellesmere Island ice shelves experienced unprecedented losses totalling about 200 square kilometres, sending more huge ice chunks drifting through Canada’s Arctic waters.
One of the country’s five remaining Arctic ice shelves — the 4,500-year-old, 50-square-kilometre Markham Ice Shelf — broke completely away from Ellesmere and drifted into the Arctic Ocean, a particularly dramatic sign of how rising temperatures and retreating sea ice were creating what one top scientist called “irreversible” changes to the country’s polar frontier.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Superstitions Bring Real Luck, Study Reveals
Superstitions Bring Real Luck, Study Reveals
Superstitious ways of bringing good luck are found in cultures around the world, and it turns out they may be ubiquitous for a very good reason: To some extent,superstitions work. New research shows that believing in, say, the power of a good luck charm can actually help improve performance in certain situations, even though the charm and event aren't logically linked.
This is what a team of psychologists at the University of Cologne in Germany report in the May issue of the journal Psychological Science. In a series of experiments employing tasks involving memory and motor skills, the scientists studied the effect of behavior and "object superstitions" – which rely on good luck charms – in college students.
Cross your fingers
The first experiment looked at the influence of the concept of good luck in a test of putting a golf ball. Experimenters handed participants a ball, and those who were told the ball was lucky tended to outperform those who weren’t.
In another experiment, participants were given a cube containing tiny balls and a slab with holes. The goal was to get as many balls in the holes as quickly as possible. Again, participants who were told, “I’ll cross my fingers for you,” by the experimenter performed better.
The final two experiments involved a lucky charm brought by each participant. In a memory test and an anagram test, the participants who were permitted to keep their lucky charms with them performed better.
Boosted confidence
To find out if superstitious beliefs were truly giving students an edge, the scientists surveyed them before the final two experiments to gauge their confidence levels. The participants who kept their good luck charms set higher goals for what they wanted to achieve on the tasks, and said they felt more confident in their abilities.
"Engaging in superstitious thoughts and behaviors may be one way to reach one's top level of performance," the researchers write in the journal article.
People often become superstitious when faced with unknown and stressful situations, possibly explaining why athletes and students are often superstitious, the researchers say. Engaging in a superstition could reduce tension related to a high-stakes competition or an exam.
As the study showed, superstitious beliefs may also increase a person's belief in his or her own abilities and talents. And what may seem like a “lucky break” when the underdog team wins may really be the result of team-wide, superstition-induced confidence.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Happy Birthday Tony
Happy Birthday Tony Stewart. Here is a twitpic posted by Stewart Haas Racing on Tony's birthday on May 20, 2010. Gotta love it.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
From The Secret Daily Teachings
From The Secret Daily Teachings
Isn't it great to know that you cannot control your world from the outside? To try and control things on the outside feels impossible because it would take so much work, and in fact it is impossible according to the law of attraction.
Isn't it great to know that you cannot control your world from the outside? To try and control things on the outside feels impossible because it would take so much work, and in fact it is impossible according to the law of attraction.
To change your world all you have to do is manage your thoughts and feelings on the inside of you, and then your whole world changes.
Monday, May 10, 2010
From The Secret Daily Teachings
From The Secret Daily Teachings
Look for the gifts in everything, especially when you are facing what appears to be a negative situation. Everything that we attract causes us to grow, which means that ultimately everything is for our own good.
Look for the gifts in everything, especially when you are facing what appears to be a negative situation. Everything that we attract causes us to grow, which means that ultimately everything is for our own good.
Adjusting to a new path and a new direction will require new qualities and strengths, and these qualities are always exactly what we need to acquire in order to accomplish the great things ahead in our life.
Patterns
Just noting that the repeating numbers pattern is continuing. I know that some people have numbers like 11 11 repeat. Or I hear of a lot of 11 and 22 stuff. I used to have a lot of 10 10 repeats. I still get those (an example in a minute), but my stuff is more random which makes me wonder if the universe is just messing with me in general. I've been having where I look at my mileage on my car...the little one that I reset so that I know when it makes sense to refill gas. I've been looking just as the numbers are in a pattern...like 121.2 type stuff. I also keep enter the milage info into an app on my phone. The last time that I entered the total miles it was 87878...makes you go hmmm.
Today I signed on to check my mail and there was another facebook friend request....I'm not a big fan of facebook....I feel like I'm trapped back in high school world. That is another subject for another day. So this girl sends me a friend request. I really have no idea who she but we have six mutual friends and I know those six people so I guess that I'll go with it...I went back to the email to see what time the request came in so that I don't seem needy or too excited since I don't remember her by adding her too quickly. Well, here's what my gmail said:10:10 PM (10 hours ago) again...........hmmmm.
Today I signed on to check my mail and there was another facebook friend request....I'm not a big fan of facebook....I feel like I'm trapped back in high school world. That is another subject for another day. So this girl sends me a friend request. I really have no idea who she but we have six mutual friends and I know those six people so I guess that I'll go with it...I went back to the email to see what time the request came in so that I don't seem needy or too excited since I don't remember her by adding her too quickly. Well, here's what my gmail said:10:10 PM (10 hours ago) again...........hmmmm.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Stewart's New Demographic
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Language of Elephants and Dolphins
Isn't it ironic that our Christian faith teaches us that we are made in God's image and at the same time we are taught that God loves us unconditionally. Yet as humans we can be so thick and unloving. We clump through life thinking that we know how things works and that we can master our universe...we're in the image of God after all. But we don't get the important part right...the love part.
One of the examples is the way that we see animals. We use them for work and for food but we don't view them as God's creatures, or see that we might learn something from them. I found the following stories so amazing.
First there was a story in The Times that says that dolphins should be considered "non-human persons." The article points out:
Studies into dolphin behaviour have highlighted how similar their communications are to those of humans and that they are brighter than chimpanzees. These have been backed up by anatomical research showing that dolphin brains have many key features associated with high intelligence.
One of the examples is the way that we see animals. We use them for work and for food but we don't view them as God's creatures, or see that we might learn something from them. I found the following stories so amazing.
First there was a story in The Times that says that dolphins should be considered "non-human persons." The article points out:
Studies into dolphin behaviour have highlighted how similar their communications are to those of humans and that they are brighter than chimpanzees. These have been backed up by anatomical research showing that dolphin brains have many key features associated with high intelligence.
The researchers argue that their work shows it is morally unacceptable to keep such intelligent animals in amusement parks or to kill them for food or by accident when fishing. Some 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die in this way each year.
Then there was a story in National Geographic that mentions how there is a language that elephants use. Here is a bit from the article:
Like humans and many other mammals, she explained, the elephants have a wide range of calls and signals for different purposes—to secure their defense, warn others of danger, coordinate group movements, reconcile differences, attract mates, reinforce family bonds, and announce their needs and desires.
Distinctive expressions of joy, anger, sympathy, sexual desire, playfulness, and many other emotions are among their vocal repertoire.
Our world is so amazing that it is sad that we often walk through it without really seeing the details.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
From The Secret Daily Teachings
From The Secret Daily Teachings
It is important to remember that it is your thoughts and feelings together that create with the law of attraction, and you cannot separate them. Also remember that it's your feelings that are summing up your overall frequency and telling you what you are creating in this moment.
It is important to remember that it is your thoughts and feelings together that create with the law of attraction, and you cannot separate them. Also remember that it's your feelings that are summing up your overall frequency and telling you what you are creating in this moment.
So how are you feeling right now? Could you feel better? Well then, do what it takes right now to feel better.
May the joy be with you
Monday, April 26, 2010
Alien Life
Linda Moulton Howe posted this quote from Stephen Hawking on her news site Earthfiles. She's always ahead of the curve, and so it is one of my sites that I visit daily. I found the quote to be really enlightening. Michio Kaku, who is also a Theoretical Physicist, has often said during his conversations with Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM that "aliens" would likely not pay much attention to us because they are so much more advanced than we are. They would look upon us like we look upon ants...there's not much that we can learn from the ants and the ants can't even begin to comprehend us.
However, Hawking brings another interesting perspective to the table. Thanks for sharing Linda.
“To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens
might actually be like. ... If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much
as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out
well for the Native Americans.” - Stephen Hawking, Ph.D., Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Cards and Meanings
I have some emotional...stressful...good... things going on in my life. I'm human and so I know that we all do. I often turn to prayer and to getting readings from my angel cards for help. I have several different ones but last night I used the Angel Journey Cards and the Saints and Angel Cards.
I may have some opportunities at my new job so one of the things that I asked was in regard to what messages the Angels about that. One of the cards said that I would get a message from heaven and that I should watch for the same message to catch my attention by showing up at least three times. I was going through my email here at work and I got a Daily Teaching from The Secret today and here is what it said:
"Most people don't realize how much passion they put into what they don't want. When you speak to a friend and you tell them all about an "awful" situation, you are putting passion into what you don't want. When you react to an event negatively, with the response that it is "terrible", you are putting passion into what you don't want.
I may have some opportunities at my new job so one of the things that I asked was in regard to what messages the Angels about that. One of the cards said that I would get a message from heaven and that I should watch for the same message to catch my attention by showing up at least three times. I was going through my email here at work and I got a Daily Teaching from The Secret today and here is what it said:
"Most people don't realize how much passion they put into what they don't want. When you speak to a friend and you tell them all about an "awful" situation, you are putting passion into what you don't want. When you react to an event negatively, with the response that it is "terrible", you are putting passion into what you don't want.
You are a beautiful passionate being, so make sure you direct your passion wisely."
Then I was looking through my different podcast sights to see if there were any shows to download. This one was actually posted yesterday and I wasn't planning on downloading it, but now I just might have to see what it is about.
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Expand Your Passion!Learn how to expand your passion today! Listen in as Sandra talks with Hay House author Peggy McColl about how to take your passion to global levels. Whatever your talents or pursuits, you can go viral and share them with the world!
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 Peggy McColl: Peggy McColl is an internationally recognized expert in the area of destiny achievement whose purpose is to make a positive contribution to the lives of millions of others. She has been inspiring individuals, experts, professional athletes, and organizations to reach their potential for the past 25 years. She is the president and founder of Dynamic Destinies Inc., an organization committed to delivering sound principles for creating lasting and positive change.Peggy lives in Quebec, Canada, with her son, Michel, and her husband, Denis. You can contact her at: peggy@destinies.com or through her Websites: www.destinies.com or www.yourdestinyswitch.com. [I added the emphasis above.] I guess I'll have to see if I get the message of passion for a third time and then I'll know that I need to pay attention to my passion when it comes to work. |
April 9...1980 and 2010
Last Friday, April 9, 2010, my friend called me as she was traveling to visit her daughter. She was excited because she had just been entered into a chance to win a get away to Sandals at the the Bahamas through a radio station contest. She asked me to look up the details of it because the drawing was later that day. When I did I saw that the trip was coming up in like two weeks and required that the winner already have a passport. Since my friend didn't have a passport, I looked up the details and saw that it took a minimum of two to three weeks expedited.
It got me to thinking that I should look in to getting one in case there was ever a good deal on a cruise or something. One of the questions on the passport form was in regards to whether you've ever had a passport before and if so what is the number. I had one when I was in high school so I wondered if I even had the thing anymore and looked for it when I got home.
I had gone to Germany when I was in high school and the passport was among my souvenirs. I was looking through my stuff from the trip and reminiscing. On the last day of my trip at the Frankfurt airport, I had grabbed a paper. As I was looking at this old paper, I looked at the date. It was April 9, 1980. So I looked at my passport, and it only had one stamp from when I reentered the country and it was April 9, 1980.
What was the odds that exactly 30 years to the day, I would be looking at my passport because I was considering another passport?
It got me to thinking that I should look in to getting one in case there was ever a good deal on a cruise or something. One of the questions on the passport form was in regards to whether you've ever had a passport before and if so what is the number. I had one when I was in high school so I wondered if I even had the thing anymore and looked for it when I got home.
I had gone to Germany when I was in high school and the passport was among my souvenirs. I was looking through my stuff from the trip and reminiscing. On the last day of my trip at the Frankfurt airport, I had grabbed a paper. As I was looking at this old paper, I looked at the date. It was April 9, 1980. So I looked at my passport, and it only had one stamp from when I reentered the country and it was April 9, 1980.
What was the odds that exactly 30 years to the day, I would be looking at my passport because I was considering another passport?
From The Secret Daily Teachings
From The Secret Daily Teachings
You cannot bring what you want to you if you are feeling stress. Stress or any tension at all is something you have to remove from your system.
You cannot bring what you want to you if you are feeling stress. Stress or any tension at all is something you have to remove from your system.
You must let the stress go - it is the only way you can bring what you want. The emotion of stress is saying strongly that you do NOT have what you want. Stress or tension is the absence of faith, and so to remove it all you have to do is increase your faith!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
More WebBot Details
On April 9th, I wrote about the Web Bot guys on the April 1st Coast to Coast AM show. I mentioned that there were already they had already had hits regarding their predictions with earthquakes and food shortages. I'm sure that there are more to come with the food shortages.
I have to admit that over the years of listening to Coast to Coast there are many times that I have shook my head and said there's no way that is going to happen or that is just such a story; only to see the main stream media catch up to the story. My first experience was back in 1997 when Art Bell was talking about frogs growing extra legs. I thought that this was just a science fiction story, but then I saw it show up on a news report about a month or so later.
Anyway, I still have moments when I just can't believe what I am hearing, especially on some of these predictive shows. On April 1st, George Ure and Cliff High (the Web Bot guys) said that they saw the draft coming back. Now, they fully admit that they just go with the language and sometimes they misinterpret what the actual message is; so they were just seeing the archtype for the draft to come back. I'm wondering if it is the latest disinformation that Fox news and the conservatives are putting out into the American mind set. My local paper, Florida Today, pointed out that a Fox News analyst is selling the following story:
"A mysterious addition to the bill, these reliable sources tell me, creates a separate uniformed army to serve at the whim of President Obama, just like Hitler's brownshirts. This new army of 6,000 would include armed doctors and could institute a draft, according to some of the 1.3 million Web entries returned by Google in a search for "Obama" and "Private Army." (emphasis added)
I have to admit that over the years of listening to Coast to Coast there are many times that I have shook my head and said there's no way that is going to happen or that is just such a story; only to see the main stream media catch up to the story. My first experience was back in 1997 when Art Bell was talking about frogs growing extra legs. I thought that this was just a science fiction story, but then I saw it show up on a news report about a month or so later.
Anyway, I still have moments when I just can't believe what I am hearing, especially on some of these predictive shows. On April 1st, George Ure and Cliff High (the Web Bot guys) said that they saw the draft coming back. Now, they fully admit that they just go with the language and sometimes they misinterpret what the actual message is; so they were just seeing the archtype for the draft to come back. I'm wondering if it is the latest disinformation that Fox news and the conservatives are putting out into the American mind set. My local paper, Florida Today, pointed out that a Fox News analyst is selling the following story:
"A mysterious addition to the bill, these reliable sources tell me, creates a separate uniformed army to serve at the whim of President Obama, just like Hitler's brownshirts. This new army of 6,000 would include armed doctors and could institute a draft, according to some of the 1.3 million Web entries returned by Google in a search for "Obama" and "Private Army." (emphasis added)
Is this the draft language that the Web Bot is picking up on?
Friday, April 9, 2010
Earthquakes
It seems like there are more large earthquakes this year. It's something that I've been paying attention to since hearing about predictions for Earth changes from people like Gordon Michael Scallion beginning in the early 90s. One of the things that is supposed to be the precursor is earthquakes. I've read in books by Graham Hancock that in ancient history that the Earth's crust slipped. I didn't even realize that was possible. With all of the 2012 predictions, it makes you think about things. How catastrophic would it be if our crust just slipped and moved?!
The 8.8 earthquake in Chile on February 27, 2010 was large enough that it moved the Earth on its axis by 3 inches and slowed the Earth rotation by 1.26 microseconds.
We've had what seems like so many large quakes since the one in Haiti that all of those predictions about Earth changes are on my mind. It may just be that its getting better new coverage because of the devastation in Haiti.
The 8.8 earthquake in Chile on February 27, 2010 was large enough that it moved the Earth on its axis by 3 inches and slowed the Earth rotation by 1.26 microseconds.
We've had what seems like so many large quakes since the one in Haiti that all of those predictions about Earth changes are on my mind. It may just be that its getting better new coverage because of the devastation in Haiti.
These Guys Get It Right
I am a Coast to Coast AM junkie. I started to listen when I was working third shift at the hospital. Art Bell would get me through the night. That was back in the early 90s and I've listened ever sense. I bought a radio that could record things on a timer and now its on the internet so I am a subscriber and just download the mp3s.
I'm listening to the April1st show with the Web Bot guys who use a computer program that tracks changes in language on the internet which they use to predict future events. They discussed earthquakes; said that they expect six large earthquakes before the end of 2010. Then they said that Southern California was due. On April 4th, a 7.2 earthquake hit Southern California. The rides at Disneyland were even stopped for a short time after it hit.
They also kept coming back to food shortages or skyrocketing food prices. Now, as I'm checking out the blog updates in Google Reader, I come across this story posted on AlterNet: Seven Food and Resource Crises on the Horizon, and What You Can Do About It.
I've always found these guys interesting to listen to, and I think that the premise of their science is a good one. People are naturally intuitive and it would naturally show up in the conversation in someplace as open as the internet. It is something to think about.
I'm listening to the April1st show with the Web Bot guys who use a computer program that tracks changes in language on the internet which they use to predict future events. They discussed earthquakes; said that they expect six large earthquakes before the end of 2010. Then they said that Southern California was due. On April 4th, a 7.2 earthquake hit Southern California. The rides at Disneyland were even stopped for a short time after it hit.
They also kept coming back to food shortages or skyrocketing food prices. Now, as I'm checking out the blog updates in Google Reader, I come across this story posted on AlterNet: Seven Food and Resource Crises on the Horizon, and What You Can Do About It.
I've always found these guys interesting to listen to, and I think that the premise of their science is a good one. People are naturally intuitive and it would naturally show up in the conversation in someplace as open as the internet. It is something to think about.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day
Temperature Anomalies, Winter 2009-2010 — Northern Hemisphere winter 2009–2010 temperatures were unusually cold across much of the United States, Canada, and Europe compared to previous winters this decade, while Greenland, North Africa, and the Middle East were warmer than usual. (more)
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Quantum Mechanics Becomes Even Weirder
According to quantum mechanics, light can be either a graceful rippling wave or a hail of bulletlike particles, depending on how you look at it. Now, an experiment shows that an observer can make the choice retroactively, after light has entered a measuring apparatus. The result shows that reality is truly in the eye of the beholder.
A single dollop of light, or photon, must be described by a flowing quantum wave that gives the probability of finding it at any particular place and time. At the same time, the photon acts a bit like an indivisible bullet: When observed with a particle detector, it produces a distinct signal, like a pebble pinging off a car door. And things get weirder. The quantum wave can split in two and recombine, like ripples flowing around a stump in a pond, to create striking "interference" effects that determine which way the recombined wave flows. On the other hand, it's simply impossible to split a photon at a fork in the road. If there is no way to eventually put the pieces back together, the photon acts like a particle and goes one way or the other.
Even weirder still, the choice to allow the waves to recombine or not can be made even after the photon passes the fork where it should have split--or not. Famed physicist John Archibald Wheeler realized that nearly 30 years ago and dreamed up an experiment to prove the point. Now Jean-François Roch of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan in France and colleagues have performed the experiment. The researchers shot photons one by one at a half-silvered mirror, or "beam splitter," to cleave the quantum wave describing each photon. After traveling different distances, the two halves sloshed back together at a second beam splitter 50 meters away, which could recombine them. The experimenters could randomly switch this second beam splitter on and off electronically well after the photon had passed the first one.
If the second splitter was on, interference between the two pieces directed the recombined wave of probability toward one or the other of two detectors, depending on the difference in the path lengths. If the second beam splitter was turned off so the waves couldn't recombine, then the photon took one path or the other with 50-50 probability, and equal numbers of photons reached detectors. The results, reported this week in Science, prove that the photon does not decide whether to behave like a particle or a wave when it hits the first beam splitter, Roch says. Rather, the experimenter decides only later, when he decides whether to put in the second beam splitter. In a sense, at that moment, he chooses his reality.
Others had tried to perform Wheeler's experiment but had lacked the single-photon source and other elements to really do it right, says Arthur Zajonc, an experimenter at Amherst College in Massachusetts. "This is the experiment you wanted to do, but it was too hard," he says. The experiment will likely become a classic cited in textbooks, Zajonc says: "It's going to be seen as a kind of a landmark."
Do Your Only Live Once?
We think we die and rot into the ground, and thus must squeeze everything in before it's too late. If life -- yours, mine -- is a just a one-time deal, then we're as likely to be screwed as pampered. But experiments suggest this view of the world may be wrong.
The results of quantum physics confirm that observations can't be predicted absolutely. Instead, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the "many-worlds" interpretation, states that there are an infinite number of universes (the "multiverse"). Everything that can possibly happen occurs in some universe. The old mechanical -- "we're just a bunch of atoms" −- view of life loses its grip in these scenarios.
Biocentrism extends this idea, suggesting that life is a flowering and adventure that transcends our ordinary linear way of thinking. Although our individual bodies are destined to self-destruct, the "me'' feeling is just energy operating in the brain. But this energy doesn't go away at death. One of the surest principles of science is that energy never dies; it can neither be created nor destroyed. When we die, we do so not in the random billiard ball matrix but in the inescapable life matrix. Life has a non-linear dimensionality −- it's like a perennial flower that returns to bloom in the multiverse.
A series of landmark experiments show that measurements an observer makes can influence events that have already happened in the past. One experiment (Science 315, 966, 2007) confirmed that flipping a switch could retroactively change a result that had happened before the switch was flipped. Regardless of the choice you, the observer, make, it'll be you who will experience the outcomes −- the universes −- that will result.
The implications of this were clear with my sister "Bubbles." The earliest remembrance I have of my childhood was with her, in her play doctor's office. "You're a little unwell," she said, handing me a cup of sand. "It's medicine. Drink this and you'll feel better." This I did; and as I started to drink it, Bubbles cried out "No!" and gave a gasp as if she were swallowing it herself.
The affection that existed between Bubbles and me was a strong one, for being my older sister, she had always felt that it was her job to protect me. I can remember standing at the school bus stop with my little mittens and lunchbox, when one of the older neighborhood boys pushed me to the ground. I was still on the ground and hurt, when I saw Bubbles running up the street. "You touch my little brother ever again," she said, "and I'll punch your face in."
It's difficult to believe that I, and not she, went on to become the doctor. Although she was very bright, by 10th grade she'd dropped out of school and entered on a course of destruction with drugs. The ill done to her at home had little remission. She was beaten, ran away, and punished again. I recall her hiding under the porch, and the terror that hung about the place; I can see the tears running down her face. After moving out of the house I learned she was pregnant. When all the relatives refused to go to her wedding, I told her "It's okay!" and held her hand. The birth of "Little Bubbles" was a happy occasion, an oasis in this life in the desert. How happy she was, and when I sat down by her side, she asked me −- her little brother −- if I'd be the godfather to her child.
But all this was a short event, and stands like a wild flower along an asphalt road. Little by little her mind began to deteriorate. Although I'd seen a lot of medicine by then, it was a matter of some emotion to me to see her child taken away. The deep remembrance I have of her being utterly without hope, restrained and sedated with drugs. As I went away from the hospital that day, I mingled my memories of her with tears.
Bubbles was still a pretty woman, and was found in the park once, quite distressed, her hair hanging in her face and her clothes torn; of which she knew as little as us. A while later she was pregnant, and I can only understand that someone had taken advantage of her again. I remember her looking at me in embarrassment, holding the baby in her arms. He had a cute face, and I thought, didn't look like anyone we knew.
Soon after, my big sister −- a once proud woman −- lost even the remembrance of where she lived.
This tale of Bubbles is one that has a thousand variations, told by many families, of tragedy interspersed with joyous times. But plays of experience, even ones like that of my sister, are never random, nor the end of the story. Rather, they're interludes in a melody so vast and eternal that human ears can't appreciate the tonal range of the symphony.
"Whenever anything in nature seems to us ridiculous, absurd or evil," said Spinoza "it is because we have but a partial knowledge of things."
Life has a power that transcends any individual history or universe. The story of my sister is part of a more profound drama, one that I know holds more joyful fortunes as her life unfolds in the multiverse. As in the Science experiment, whether it's flipping a switch or making other choices, she will experience the many outcomes and resulting universes. I only hope -− if she becomes a doctor −- the medicine goes down a lot easier than it did in her play-office so long ago.
Robert Lanza, MD has published extensively in leading scientific journals, and has over two dozen books, including 'Biocentrism' (with astronomer Bob Berman), which lays out the full scientific argument for his theory of everything.
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